Owasp Bug Bounty

The purpose of the Bug Bounty is to provide a platform for stable and mature defender projects as a form of Quality assurance. The Bounty is also available for Tool projects such as OWASP ZAP or OWASP Seraphimdroid which require installation on the client device or computer that can represent a security risk to them.

Many developers and companies looking to implement security are turning towards OWASP to use Defender libraries that they can implement to secure their critical applications. Since this implies a form of trust in OWASP, many users of these projects might forget or not be aware that many of them are Open Source and lack an expected security assurance review, which at the moment is not done by OWASP.

Testing web applications for security can be a challenging task. But testing that security control libraries are robust in the face of attack is an even more difficult challenge for even the most sophistical assessment professionals.

After a tender process to select a service Bug Bounty Program provider that took place from February till April 2016 , BugCrowd was selected by OWASP for conducting a Bug Bounty Program for specific OWASP projects.

BugCrowd provides their platform and services to allow OWASP projects conduct specific Bug Bounty programs for Defender category projects but also, any other Code Project that needs to be installed and could create vulnerabilities in the installed computer.

Projects that are vulnerable in nature, such as WebGoat, are not part of this initiative. Projects that are not mature enough , such as alpha releases should also not participate in the program.